When he got his dukedom he decided that he would not marry her, so his dukedom was taken away.
If you separate the dukedoms and the earldoms from those old families will they continue if one loses the male line descent?
It was from the women that these dukedoms were inherited.
The payments vary from some £350 in the case of a dukedom to £100 in the case of a baronetcy.
But they did not have to give up the title of an earldom, marquisate or dukedom to which they might have succeeded.
In the old days, one was given a dukedom or an earldom.
To lose a dukedom and a marquisate and to be left with only two earldoms seems like carelessness, even though it took a number of centuries to do it!
I come back to the dukedom analogy.
